Reviving the fourth estate :

Schultz, Julianne, 1956-

Reviving the fourth estate : democracy, accountability and the media / Julianne Schultz. - Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - xii, 304 p. ; 23 cm. - Reshaping Australian institutions. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-292) and index.

Introduction : Paradoxes of the Bastard Estate - 1. Redefining the fourth estate - 2. The fourth estate: a changing doctrine - 3. The idealised watchdog estate - 4. The other estates question the fourth - 5. Contests to the institutional legitimacy of the fourth estate - 6. Accepting the ideal - 7. Testing the ideal - 8. From reporting to investigating - 9. Challenging power: reporting in the 1980s - 10. Reviving the fourth estate.

0521629705 (pb : alk. paper)


Mass media--Political aspects.
Journalism--Political aspects.
Mass media--Ownership.
Democracy.

302.23 / SCH